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Oil shale plant gears up
ABC Online
SARAH CLARKE: The oil shale plant was eventually shut down in 2004 after the company, Southern Pacific Petroleum, ran out of money and collapsed. The technology was considered ... MAL WATKINS: I know of at least half a dozen people in this area who've ...

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MR schools honor notable alumni
Galesburg Register-Mail
She also served with Crisis Corps and logged six months doing typhoon cleanup on the island of Chuk in the Pacific. Before beginning with Mercy Corps, she did international development work for a private corporation and travelled extensively in the ...

Kate Middleton and Prince William As OAPs: How The Elderly Duke & Duchess ...
Huffington Post UK
... Jubilee Tour of the Far East on September 12, 2012 in Singapore. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge are on a Diamond Jubilee Tour of the Far East taking in Singapore, Malaysia, the Solomon Islands and the tiny ...

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Letters for Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Thegardenisland.com
The students' job was to bring education about hepatitis B which afflicts about 950 people on Kaua'i and is a major cause of liver cancer and liver failure, especially for people born in endemic areas such as southest Asia and the Pacific Islands ...

Medill Reports: Chicago
Field Museum houses clues to climate change
Medill Reports: Chicago
Archeological evidence, in the form of a shark tooth dagger from the islands of Kiribati, also points to climate change, according to Christopher Philipp, Regenstein collections manager of Pacific Anthropology. A shark tooth dagger brought to the Field ...

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Women's Agenda
Human Rights lost in offshore detention: What if they were our children?
Women's Agenda
ABC's Four Corners has documented these and a series of mental and physical health conditions redolent of the earlier incarnation of the Pacific Solution. Failures of ... One recounted seeing a man after 50 days on a hunger strike that looked like he ...
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 The diabetes drug metformin slows the growth of lung cancer cells and makes them more likely to be killed by radiotherapy.

Smoke price to rise
Fiji Times
One in every three adults in Fiji is at risk of premature death from heart disease, cancer and chronic respiratory diseases caused by NCDs. And WHO director for the prevention of NCD Douglas Bettcher said increasing taxation on cigarettes in Pacific ...

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UM Law Military Society honors veterans who fought on Iwo Jima, 2 others
Billings Gazette
It also secured for U.S. troops a key island in the South Pacific to provide landing strips for giant B-29s on bomb runs to and from Tokyo. Five months later, the war ... “When I lost the wife to cancer, then they'd come back just in flashbacks. Every ...

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UM Law Military Society honors veterans who fought on Iwo Jima, 2 others
Helena Independent Record
It also secured for U.S. troops a key island in the South Pacific to provide landing strips for giant B-29s on bomb runs to and from Tokyo. Five months later, the war ... “When I lost the wife to cancer, then they'd come back just in flashbacks. Every ...

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Food: Ginger—unsnapped!
Pacific Sun
Some of my favorite ginger products are Ginger Chews from the Ginger People, Big Island Hawaiian Organic Gingerade and Yogi Ginger Tea. A ginger drop cocktail is a welcome sight on any bar menu as is a whiskey mac (Scotch and Green Ginger Wine) ...

Manila Bulletin
No job yet? Volunteer! - Manila Bulletin
Manila Bulletin
Its Child Life Program method alleviates the anxiety of pediatric patients who suffer from illnesses such as cancer, heart condition, kidney disease, and blood disorders. It promotes optimum growth, fosters development, and helps children cope with the ...

Charities named as beneficiaries in tax-avoidance scheme say they have ...
Third Sector
A Sunday Times investigation, published yesterday, revealed a tax-avoidance scheme in which not-for-profit organisations including the British Red Cross, Cancer Research UK, the NSPCC, the National Trust, Greenpeace and Amnesty International were named ...

Community Extra: Calendar
HeraldNet
Women's Expo: This free public event is set for 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at the Camano Center, 606 Arrowhead Road, Camano Island. .... Providence gift shop: The nonprofit Providence General Children's Association needs volunteers at the Providence ...

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 Tamoxifen and three similar drugs reduce breast cancer incidence by 38 per cent in women at an increased risk of the disease according to a …

ABC Online
No Advantage
ABC Online
When Manus Island and Nauru were closed down a few months later, the then Immigration Minister Chris Evans, stated that quote: "The Pacific Solution was a cynical, costly and ultimately unsuccessful exercise. Today the ghosts of the ..... MARIANNE ...

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William and Kate: the fairy tale turns two
eNCA
Britain's Prince William (L) and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, wave to the local Solomon Islanders as they leave the airport aboard a truck decorated as canoe in Honiara on September 16, 2012. Picture: AFP. Britain's Prince William (L ...

On the fridge
Pacific Daily News
UOG singers: In this file photo, members of the University of Guam Singers perform at the 2011 UOG Gala at the Outrigger Guam Resort. Pacific Daily News file photo ... of a variety of Spamalicious dishes. Proceeds to benefit the American Cancer Society ...

  Scottish legislation banning the display of cigarettes and other tobacco products in larger retailers comes into force today.

Kate Middleton's Video Campaign For Hospice Is Duchess' Very First Broadcast ...
Huffington Post
... Jubilee Tour of the Far East on September 12, 2012 in Singapore. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge are on a Diamond Jubilee Tour of the Far East taking in Singapore, Malaysia, the Solomon Islands and the tiny ...

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